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Originally Posted by Martin-Subbynet
Frankly - YES. - Sold our Gold cheap
- Increased Public Debt
- Added new debt for future generations (PFI)
- Loaded up students with around £15k debt each
- At the same time stats show more than 75% of new jobs went to immigrants
- Bailed out the banks with billions of pounds - they should have gone under!
- Wasted countless billions of pounds on hospitals and Schools building plan to rise standards - yet Eton is an old pile of bricks, and in public sector wages
- Did I mention the fastest growth in public sector wages ever?
- Did I mention that we have more public workers now than ever before?
- Added more Quango's than any other government (over £140 Billion spent by Quango's)
- Doubled the cost of Council Tax since they have been in power
- The increase in government spending because of devolution (Welsh and Scottish gov buildings alone went over by millions)
- The sheer waste of money on government IT systems - during 03/04 more than £23 Billion was spent, and it ran over on costs by £2 Billion so far.
- The cock up which is the new NHS computer system
- Selling one of our best defense firms Qinetiq for pennies while the old managers invest £500,000 and all take home £25,000,000 days later - this was a crime.
- The sink hole for cash which is Afganistan and Iraq
This is the tip of the iceberg, if I had the time or if I could be bothered I'd list you hundreds more examples, and remember the ID Card Scheme is still planned to go ahead, say goodbye to more billions of pounds.
Honestly, take a look at the record of Labour. This is a government not fit to lead by example and that is pretty much reflected in the people themselves. |
That's an impressive list but I don't believe a society can be turned into a list. Each of the points you mentioned may or may not be true and behind each item will be complex story or gross incompetence or both. I'm not an apologist for the government, whatever their colour. My point is we have to take responsibility for our own society. We can't turn the other cheek and simply blame the government.
I've seen governments of all political persuasions make a complete mess of the country. Labour have done it, the Tories have done it and it will always be thus. Running a country is a complex business
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